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<h2>Facebook Membership Provider</h2>
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<h4>Introduction</h4>	
<p>One of the great new features introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 was the use of the "provider model" which provides flexibility and extensibility to your Web applications. Using the provider model, we can easily extend the capabilities provided by the ASP.NET. We can extend the provider model to work with the membership & role information for the Web site users in a custom way, rather than the default SQL Server Express 2005 database. In this project we are trying to demonstrate how to use Facebook Connect featues as Membership Provider for an ASP.Net web application.</p>
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<h4>What is Facebook Connect?</h4>
<p>Facebook is no doubt, #1 social networking site. Facebook Connect provides Authentication service and also provides powerful set of APIs by which we can bring user's identity and connections to our web applications. Using Facebook connect can access a user's Idnetity(name, photos etc), Social Graph(friends and connections) and Stream(ctivity, distribution, and integration points within Facebook, like stream stories and Publishers) </p>
<p>Click <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php" target="_blank">here</a> for more details.</p>
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<p>You can see the live demo of this project <a target="_blank" href="http://pinalbhatt.cloudapp.net:8081/">here</a>, read more about the project at <a href="http://www.p-bhatt.com/2009/10/facebook-membership-provider.html" target="_blank">Pinal Bhatt's Blog</a> and download the source code from from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/fbmembership/" target="_blank">Google Code</a> or <a href="http://fbmembership.codeplex.com/" target="_blank">CodePlex</a>.</p>
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